By Jenny Zheng on December 25, 2022 at 8:00AM PSTThe products discussed here were independently chosen by our editors. GameSpot may get a share of the revenue if you buy anything featured on our site. I decided to do a retrospective of notable video game pets in 2022, because, frankly, I adopted a real one this year. A simple motivation and a simple, straightforward article to put together–right? But while brainstorming, really existential questions about what counts as a pet in a video game started manifesting.Do pets need to have no utilitarian use and be purely aesthetic animal-like creatures that players get to occasionally feed and give pats to? Probably not. If they’re also tied to a game mechanic, can they be considered pets? Sure. Do they have to be a traditionally domesticated animal–as opposed to a mechanical or even ghostly existence–to be considered a pet? Perhaps?How much intelligence should they have? Because if they’re… Click below to read the full story from GameSpot
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A 2022 Retrospective Of The Very Best Pets In Video Games
